honor and token wipe
Caronte22 — Wed, 09/24/2008 - 21:15
As many of you know we will be
featuring a new Battleground, a dedicated world PvP zone and all new
PvP items in Wrath of the Lich King. In order to make the transition
from The Burning Crusade to Wrath of the Lich King flow as smoothly as
possible, all accrued honor points will be reset at the launch of the
expansion. We do this to ensure select players do not have an unfair
advantage at level 80 from stockpiling honor to instantly purchase the
newest Wrath of the Lich King PvP rewards. For those with unspent honor
points prior to the release of the expansion, we will be offering a few
upgrades and special rewards in next content patch solely for purchase
via the honor system.
All Honor Tokens will be wiped as well. This reset should happen right before the launch of Wrath of the Lich King.
Thank god they rescinded
Noidling — Sat, 10/11/2008 - 02:13Thank god they rescinded that! I have been doing alot of BGs lately and that wipe would've been extremely painful.
May you live in interesting times.
They've retracted this:
saedo — Tue, 09/30/2008 - 17:42They've retracted this: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=10532279664&sid=1
Instead of wiping it, they'll just make level 80 ones much more expensive.
We had hoped that the introduction of some new Honor rewards in the upcoming patch would give players a great opportunity to spend any of their remaining Honor. However, many players would still be surprised by an Honor and token reset as it isn’t something we’ve done in the past. As such, we've decided to not reset Honor or tokens upon the release of Wrath of the Lich King. Players who save their Honor will be able to spend it on level 80 rewards, although those rewards will be significantly more expensive than their level 70 counterparts.
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Dragon — Thu, 09/25/2008 - 06:46<Holds back Emo Nerd Rage at Blizzard>
On one hand I don't like it, but on the other hand I can see why they don't want people auto handed decent gear as soon as they hit 80. I for one prolly would have farmed up 75k on my pally and warrior if they had.
Still though, to quote a friend of a friend. It does feel kinda DIShonorable =(
"--Many class changes. You won't like the ones made
to your own class but you'll think the changes made to the 9 other
classes are all overpowered." ~Tigole, Blizzard CM